"OIL ON THE TROUBLED WATERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 220, 18 September 1888, Page 2

"OIL ON THE TROUBLED WATERS.

(To the Editor.) \ Sib,—-The coal ..war has brought forward thb possibility 6f getting bear frem New Zealand, and;^v.hile the superior facilitiea for, Shipping coal at Russell are recognised, as also the merits of the coal obtainedthere, the difficulties of navigating the West Coast harbours are urgea against the pro- _ curing of the very good coal to be had from I the VVeatporb and Grey mines. If anything could be done-^to- kssen bhe dangers that I abtead the entering Or leaving: the bar harbours :of the West ; Coast in the J storms of winter* it would materially assist depressed New Zea . land. The influence of oil in stilling ttoflbled waters haß been'fepeatbdiy put to good account of late. Tho transatlantic line of steamers (Fjrench) have fitted their vessels with oil apparatus for bad .wither; the entrance to the,harbour Of Aberdeen, Scotland, between the alrms<bf >the breakwafor/is fitted with oil pipes for, the Same purposbi arid the<..Wait-r mata on her last voyage from the: Kaipara used oil bags to save herself.- 'N'oWi, ;if open framework of'timber,r trrissed and j moored, were made with an Pncircling belt] "of light timber, or even stout tjirpahlin. the necessary film ,bf oil on, the surface could be j secured :in place and from spreading OUbto such tenuity bhab ib would break up into drops become useless for the purpose defeired.;: The original cost would be slight, arid the costof mairitbharice hot much; If a: steariaer- C^me into cbllisibri with it the vessel would not be ;hurt, and the floating breakwater only repairablyirij ured. —-Yours, e^ic., -"■ , , , ; R.'A.B.,;Sydney. ■

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